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• Salt for the Crossing

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A sealed pouch, a night ferry, and three rules: don't open it, don't wet it, don't answer if it knocks.

  folk soft-magicNewShort read

  ~42–44 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: ferry name, kept charm

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• The Grey Court

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  The Council of Lamps is letting the outer Roads go dark on purpose, the queen hasn't been seen in a year, and the map that chose which towns would be forgotten was drawn by the man walking beside you.

  epic fantasyNewBook 2 of 3Long read

  ~224–226 pages · 20 chapters · 3 endings · 1.6T paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: lantern name, trail food, keepsake

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• The Lending Library of Lost Things

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A fog-wrapped harbor town, a library that lends what people have lost, and a ledger that has been waiting for you.

  cozy literary fantasyNew

  ~88–91 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 50M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: deposit, ticket name

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• The Ninth Road

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  The waystones are going out one by one, and the last Warden of the north has one old lantern, a wrong map, and a disgraced cartographer who won't say why the map is wrong.

  epic fantasyNewBook 1 of 3Long read

  ~204–206 pages · 20 chapters · 3 endings · 3.3T paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: lantern name, trail food, keepsake

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• Where the Map Ends

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Past the last village on the Survey's map, an unlit road runs into the grey, and at the end of it is the thing the Wendmark chose to forget.

  epic fantasyNewBook 3 of 3Long read

  ~231–233 pages · 20 chapters · 3 endings · 1.6T paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: lantern name, trail food, keepsake

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